What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 17 - In the Dining Room

Now, having looked a places in the dining room to place heraldry directly on the table, as a table decoration, and the serving dishes, we now come to that part of the dining experience that I expect many of you have already seen in one place or another as a way to display your coat of arms in the dining room: the dining china.

This most commonly takes the form of the plates, which may be decorated with heraldry in any one of several different ways, both fancier with complete (or nearly so) armorial achievements:

And somewhat more "low key", with the owner's crest and monogram:

And not just plates, but bowls may be so decorated:

And let us not forget, as I am sure many of you have not, the silver service at each place setting. You will no doubt notice that, owing to its smaller size (and thus less space for such engraving, that most silverware carries just the crest of the owner:

And to complete each place setting, we have the armorial napkin ring ...

... and knife rest, a useful and elegant way to keep knives from soiling the tablecloth:

Next time, we will finish off the place settings with what you have probably already noticed is missing in this post: the glassware.